Ecological Economics

Robert Costanza, John Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland, and Richard Norgard, An Introduction to Ecological Economics (St. Lucie Press 1997)

Humanity is at a tuning point where the activities of our species are so large that they are affecting the ecological life systems themselves.   Economic growth needs to be rethought so that qualitative improvement without growth in resources occurs and the interrelatedness and interdependence of all aspects of life is recognized.   We need to move from an economics that ignores interdependence to one that acknowledges and builds on it.  To do this is to return to the classical roots of economics where economics and the other sciences were integrated.   Ecological economics is an attempt to transcend narrow disciplinary boundaries to bring our full intellectual capital to bear on the huge problems we face. (Synopsis of review in The Future Survey Super Seventy:  Best Books of 1996-2000, World Future Society, 2001)

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